KUSF Now Has Only 15 Listeners

• In the radio industry, the audience figures bandied about are the "weekly reach" or "weekly audience'. This means the number of people who have tuned in to the station at least once during the course of a week. With the block programming of KUSF, the figure of 50,000 is plausible. Remember some people may have only tuned in for the ethnic program in their own language. The number of simultaneous listeners varies widely for a radio station. Some small 24 hour stations privately admit they have ZERO listeners in the wee hours of the morning.

• Were you there before or after this story appeared? Maybe they had more than 15 listeners at the time you were there because of the publicity generated by this article. I work during the hours of 12-3, so can't listen. But the rest of the time it is run like any automated radio station, broadcast or online. There are literally thousands of Internet-only radio stations all over the world, usually housed in some person's basement or spare room. Most of the owners are not taking college courses on how to be a DJ. Good luck with the recruiting and advertising campaign. But the most number of simultaneous listeners they will ever have is 50. The New Music DJ's will set up their own Internet-only radio stations if they really have a need to broadcast.

• As the story says, the 15 people listening & 213 listeners maximum facts came straight from the USF Station Program Manager, Trista Bernasconi. If anyone has an incentive to exaggerate those numbers it would be her, so they're believable. And very pathetic.

• are you really old or just really retarted?

• 50,000 listeners would have easily made KUSF one of the top 3 stations in the market (and given them massive fuck you clout to anyone who would take them off the air). I love KUSF and miss it terribly, but I doubt it ever had more than a couple thousand listeners at once.

• The new stream had more than 15 people listening. I was there and had a number. Listen in at 12-3 for a KUSF 90.3 Dj still delivering great music on the online station. I don't know where you're getting your facts but most likely from a disgruntled New Music Dj who is still protesting the sale of the FM license. And also make sure you know when you're listening to an on-air DJ or when you're listening to an ipod playing because no DJs are in there.

• 50,000 simultaneous listeners? I call bullshit.

• I was one of the 15 today listening for fifteen minutes....it sounded really unprofessional and awful. So painful to my ears after all those years of great sounding DJs

• What about USF's vaudeville troupe, how many people are in their audience? And the blacksmithing department, how many stagecoach horses have they shod lately?

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